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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42351	An appendix unto the homily against images in churches, by Edm: Gurnay Bachelour in Divinity, and minister of Gods Word at Harpley in Norfolk	Gurnay, Edmund, d. 1648.; Gurnay, Edmund, d. 1648. aut	1641 (1641)	Wing G2259A; ESTC R217436	19,756	97

AN APPENDIX UNTO THE HOMILY Against Images in Churches By EDM GURNAY Bachelour in Divinity and Minister of Gods Word at Harpley in Norfolk AUGUST de Civit Dei Lib. 1. C. 3. Vtile est ut plures libri à pluribus fiant etiam de quaestionibus eisdem LONDON Printed by A.N. for J. Rothwel at the Sun in Pauls Church-yard 1641. TO The Honored and Judicious Sir JOHN HOBART Knight Baronet As also unto the Noble and vertuous the Lady FRANCES his Wife I humbly dedicate these ensuing endevours in the LORD AN APPENDIX UNTO THE Homily against IMAGES IN Churches NEither an Idlenesse nor yet a rashnesse can it be esteemed in any under the Government of the Church of England to write or speak against the Images the pronenesse of the Times to advance them making it rather an act of necessity then of idlenesse to oppose them and the expresnesse of our Church doctrine against them making ●t rather an act of Authority then of rashnesse utterly to deface them How expresse and positive the doctrine of our Church is against them our English Homily entitled Against the perill of idolatry abundantly declareth And that sufficiently in any of these ensuing parcels therof As first in these words To conclude It appeareth evidently by all Stories and writing and experience that neither preaching neither writing nor the consent of the Learned nor the Authoritie of the Godly nor the Decrees of Councils nor the Laws of Princes nor extreame punishment of the offenders in that behalfe nor any other remedie or meanes can helpe against Idolatry if Images be suffered publikely Libro Homil. Tom. 2. Homil. 2. part 3. p. 60. Impres ult. Secondly left wee should think that it excepted only against Heathen images it addeth further in these words All those names of abomination which God● Word in the holy Scripture giveth unto the Idols of the Gentiles the same appertain also to our Images set up in our Churches and unto the makers and maintainers thereof pag. 80. And finally lest we should think that it did except only against the Images of ordinary and inferiour persons and not against the Images of Canonized Saints and persons of speciall reckoning it hath a proviso to that purpose in these words The Images of God our Saviour the Virgine the Apostles Martyrs and others of notable holinesse are of all others the most dangerous and therefore of all other greatest care ought to be had hat none of them be suffered to stand publickely in Temples and Churches pag. 66. On the other side what a pronenesse there is in the Times to advance them this alone may be argument sufficient in that notwithstanding the so peremptory determination of our Church against them they bee neverthelesse still retained and also for one pretense or other more and more multiplyed and advanced In this therefore so palpable a Schisme betwixt doctrine practice my duty binding me and my judgment serving mee to side with the doctrine my desire is to exercise my pen as my Title imported and my purpose is to confine my paines unto the making answer unto only two of those allegatiōs which use to bee made in the behalfe of Church-images and they shall be these 1 That Images do greatly adorn beautifie Churches 2 That they furnish the dead with Tombes and Monuments For though it also use to bee pleaded in their behalfe that they are speciall good to give instruction and also toward the quickning of devotion yet because wee have already toward the vindication of the second Commandement made particular answers unto those allegations we will wholly for this time confine our selves unto those two premised 1 To the first of them then which pleadeth how greatly they adorn and beautifie Churches we answer First that in the prophecie of Esay the Lord saith thus a Yee shall defile the covering of thy graven Images of silver and the ornament of thy molten Images of gold thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth thou shalt say unto them get thee hence And in the prophecie of Ezechiel wee read thus b As for the beautie of his ornament hee set it in majesty but they have made the Images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein Secondly it is a necessary condition in an ornament that it be without scandall but Images in Churches are not without scandall therefore Images in Churches are no Ornaments Touching the ground of this our argument namely that Ornaments must not bee scandalous it is no more then the generall rule of Justice doth require For life must always be preferred before beautie as c life is more worth then meat and the body then rayment whereupon it fairly follows that the things which indāger life especially the spirituall life must rather bee forborne then the things which serve only for beautie ornament procured therewith yea the Apostle esteems it a d warn of Charity if a man had not rather sometime part with his food then be the cause of another mans sinne Now that Images are scandalous things in Churches it is many wayes apparent For first there being an unreasonable pronenesse in the heart of man to sinne by Images even to the bowing down unto them and committing spirituall fornication with them It must needs be that the setting up such kind of sights in those kind of places where persons that are spiritually incontinent are allowed yea and bound to repaire will prove a palpable incensment and provocation thereunto especially when as such kinde of pollution is apt to be committed through the meere aspect of the outward Eye and that without the privity or knowledge of the neerest slander by Surely if incontinent persons should be invited unto such kind of houses as had every corner stuffed with bagages for such purposes and such also as were not able to say thē nay for such kind of things wear sure are Images were it not a most ready way to provoke such kind of iniquity Secondly wee reade in the prophet Ezechiel that when e the people of Israell did see the Images of the Caldeās portrayed up●● the City wals girded with gir●les about their loynes exceeding ● dyed attire like Princes c. ●●ey entred into the Bed of love with them And therefore when our people shall see the images not of Infidels and profane persons but of most holy Saints in like manner pourtrayed and that not up●n common wals but upon he walls and most eminent places of holy Temples Is it not to be feared that spirituall dotage will insue thereupon even to the entring into the Bed of love with them For admit that the dotage of those Isralites which the prophet report of was not upon the Images but upon the persons which those Images did represent yet when such persons were once dead or so far distant as that their lover● could not enjoy them will not the dotage in the end rather double it selfe